Meditation Quotes - Page 20

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

When we are authentic, when we act out of presence and awareness, it also gives nourishment to the inner being of people around us.

Presence is to meet another person in meditation. Presence is to invite another person in meditation. It is a meeting in love, joy, acceptance, sincerity, truth, silence and oneness.

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts.

The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still.

When I first tried a sensory deprivation tank, people thought I had lost my mind. In fact, I had found it.

One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him.

There is a simple path to follow, that appears only when you calm your mind.

The fulcrum of resistance is in your mind where you pit yourself against the weight of the external.

Acquiring a blissful brain and in peace, is when i think positively, the sounds around and within me become music, my movement as one of a conscious dance, my smile breaking in to an infectious laughter, my mind transcending in meditation, and my life grows and becomes a celebration!

Blessed are those that know the path out of their carnal flesh, for they shall attain intuition.

The artist realizes himself in his work; the mind realizes itself in life.

If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.

My friends think I'm outgoing, but I don't travel as much outside as I do from the inside.

Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.

[Il ne manque cependant à l'oisiveté du sage qu'un meilleur nom, et que méditer, parler, lire, et être tranquille s'appelât travailler.]

There is, however, nothing wanting to the idleness of a philosopher but a better name, and that meditation, conversation, and reading should be called “work”.